Meclib tutorial: Basic Question Setup - mkraska/meclib GitHub Wiki

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• In your Moodle profile, select „Preferences“
• Select „Editor preferences“
• Select „Marklar“ or „Plain text area“, Save changes.
• If you selected Marklar, you get a link to it‘s preferences.
  • Make sure that HTML format is checked
  • Save changes

• Enter a moodle course where you are trainer with editing rights.
• Turn editing on
• Add a quiz activity
• Name it „Meclib Demo by <your name>“
• Set Question behaviour to „Adaptive mode“
• Save and display

This creates a quiz with no question.

In the quiz administration page, go to the "Questions" tab.

• Press "Add"
• Select "a new question"
• In the Dialog select "STACK"
• Press "Add" to create an empty unsaved question

The question must be filled with minimum contents to be saveable.

• Category
  • Select as you prefer. In the STACK 2024 conference course, the category "Meclib Workshop" is appropriate
• Question name:
  • Meclib Demo
  • Must be unique in the question bank and should be meaningful
• Question variables: empty for now
• Question text:
  • remove everything and add <p>[[input:S_Ha]] [[validation:S_Ha]] [[feedback:Ha]]</p>
  • This places input, validation and feedback fields for the analytical expression for the hypotenuse of the triangle.
• Specific feedback:
  • Remove all content. We will create feedback in the Response trees later.
• Press "Verify the question text and update the form". This creates setting fields for input and feedback
• Open Input: ans1 and confirm removal (Generic names for input and feedback are hard to track in more complex questions).
• Open Input: S_Ha
  • Model answer: Ha
  • Syntax hint: expression (optional, can be done later)
  • Hint attribute: Placeholder (optional, can be done later)
• Open Potential response tree: prt1 and confirm removal
• Open Potential response tree: Ha
  • In Node 1 enter SAns S_Ha and TAns Ha
• Press Save changes and continue editing. The Preview button should appear.
• Press Preview

In the preview window:

• Set Preview options> How questions behave to "Adaptive mode"
• Press Start again with these options
• Press Fill in correct responses
• Press Check

Now we have a minimum question which is the starting point to make it more useful. This is save point P1.

• Question variables: Add a line:
  Ha: sqrt(a^2+b^2);
• Question text: Add the following text:

  <p>Give the general formula for the length of the hypotenuse \(c\) 
  of a right-angled triangle with sides \(a\) and \(b\).</p>
  

• Press Save changes and continue editing
• Press Preview In the preview window:
• Press Fill in correct responses
• Press Check

Now we want to have more compact validation (direct input processing) and feedback. This is useful in multipart questions.

Input: S_Ha

• Insert stars: "Insert stars for spaces only* (this allows input of a b instead of a*b, a conveniency feature for the students)

• Show the validation: "Yes, compact" Potential response tree: Ha

• PRT feedback style: "Compact"

• Press Save changes and continue editing

• Press Preview

Up to here there is nothing specific to Meclib.

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